I also don't understand the downvotes; the original post was polite and informative, the "moderator" throwing downvotes was aggressive, and more harm was done than help.

I have the upvote counters hidden, because I don't want to see some misguided individual to influence what should be important for me, and what shouldn't. I make my own filtering choices.

I wish that one day the internet will realize that upvote counters are more harmful than they are useful, just as it realized for downvotes. Upvotes in general promote bubbles.